Writing and reading poetry can both help us improve our mental and physical health. In William Sieghart’s The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-And-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul (2017, Penguin Books) poetry is prescribed to be …

As I grapple with my own feelings of fear and anxiety in the face of Brexit looming, climate change, the anthropocene, Donald Trump, major life changes, I’m reminded of that old Chinese curse: “May you …

I’ve been thinking about creativity a lot lately, what it means, and what it really means to live a creative life. Put simply: to be creative is to create something. I believe that being creative is central to the …

I have a particular interest in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes (CWTP) which broadly defined means using expressive, reflective and autobiographical fiction writing as a way to gain insights about our relationships with ourselves and others, explore life …

This is my new website for my new business, its the beginning of something new, and it feels exactly like I’m balancing on the edge of a precipice. Maybe that is a precipice overlooking somewhere beautiful, maybe …